So what to do instead of tweeting about the company’s new hire? Well TweetAlternative seems to be broken as well but Status.net, a twitter clone that you can run yourself and therefore are not subject to a central point of failure, is still up and ready for your updates. Those interested in moving past the fail whales can sign up for a free hosted account on the Status.net servers, or read our post on “Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do” or just be patient.

Update: Twitter is back up! Ladies and gentlemen, resume your tweeting. Side note: While Status.net updates syndicate to Twitter through their API, it seems as though updates posted during this particular break were lost instead of queued up like they should have been.